COADS Global Marine

Access

Local CD available at the Walter Hitschfeld Geographic Information Centre (GIC) public workstations. Ask for the CD at the desk. Call number QC993.84 C66 1998 CD-ROM .

Access Requirements / Limits

Available to the McGill community only.

Coverage and Frequency

Library has 1800-1998. Monthly sampling.

Description

COADS Global Marine contains monthly statistical surface marine data covering the world ocean. The data source is the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set, created by the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research. Data includes the following variables:

sea surface temperature

air temperature

scalar wind

vector wind

sea level pressure

total cloudiness

specific humidity

relative humidity

System Requirements

To view and extract tabular records from this CD set, you must use special software which resides on 3.5” floppy. The software can export in a number of formats, including .dbf and .txt.